Conservative Rumblings

As expected, Sonia “Wise Latina” Sotomayor was confirmed yesterday via a 68-31 vote that was split largely along party lines.

I have previously mentioned several issues I see with this nominee; after the confirmation hearings (which I covered live on Twitter), I am even more concerned with her as a Supreme Court Justice. She is a racist, as I stated, and also seems to hold little respect for the Constitution or for explaining her positions. She makes arbitrary rulings and then fails to adequately explain WHY she made the ruling (example, her attack on the 2nd Amendment was obscenely short). I think she is going to be a disaster on the courts; she’ll be a bully to her fellow justices and a menace to lawyers trying to argue cases in front of her. I’ll make this promise to you all: I will be keeping my eye on her. I have a distinct feeling we have not heard the last from this “terror on the bench.”

Obama got what he wanted, though: he’s placed his first radical liberal activist on the SCOTUS.

Now, since there’s nothing more to do with Sotomayor but watch her, we need to focus on the Republicans who voted for her. It’s one thing to vote for a president’s SCOTUS pick if it’s a moderate like Anthony Kennedy…but for so-called “conservatives” to cast a vote for Obama’s sickening leftist pick is basically asking to be thrown out of office. Obviously, they are out of line for doing so and deserve to lose their seats…but interestingly enough, most already are.

Here are the nine and my thoughts/analysis on why they did what they did:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.)
Hypocrite and wuss. He hammered her over and over at the hearings, brought up a lot of great points as to why she should NOT be confirmed, and then said it was a “historic moment” and he was not concerned over political ramifications while promptly helping vote her in.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
He’s not up for re-election until 2014.
Sen. Christopher Bond (Mo.)
Not running in 2010, retiring.
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine)
Democratic sympathizer. Along with Specter and Collins, backstabbed America and voted for porkulus in February.
Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine)
See Collins, Susan.
Sen. Richard Lugar (Ind.)
Another Democratic sympathizer. Has a good relationship with Obama, was honorary co-chairman of inauguration.
Sen. Mel Martinez (Fla.)
Announced retirement, but not an unexpected vote.
Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.)
Shocked on this one and I absolutely cannot explain it.
Sen. George Voinovich (Ohio)
Not running in 2010, retiring.

So overall, it looked mostly like GOP Senators wanting to end up “on the right side of history” by not opposing the first Hispanic SCOTUS Justice (even though race “doesn’t matter,” of course) and not caring because they were retiring (or not up for re-election for many years).

The only votes that really surprise me are Gregg and Graham (and BEFORE the hearings, I would have said Graham was a shoe-in to vote for her, but what I can’t fathom now is that he voted for her after mounting one of the sternest assaults AGAINST her).

And now, those who stood firm and voted against this radical:

Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah)
Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa)
Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.)
Sen. John Cornyn (Texas)
Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.)
Sen. John Barrasso (Wyo.)
Sen. Robert Bennett (Utah)
Sen. Sam Brownback (Kan.)
Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.)
Sen. Jim Bunning (Ky.)
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (Ga.)
Sen. Thad Cochran (Miss.)
Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.)
Sen. Mike Crapo (Idaho)
Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.)
Sen. John Ensign (Nev.)
Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.)
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (Tex.)
Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.)
Sen. Johnny Isakson (Ga.)
Sen. Mike Johanns (Neb.)
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
Sen. James Risch (Idaho)
Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.)
Sen. Richard Shelby (Ala.)
Sen. John Thune (S.D.)
Sen. David Vitter (La.)
Sen. Roger Wicker (Miss.)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

As expected, unfortunately. No one wants to oppose this lunatic because they’ll be instantly labeled “racist.” I’ve already detailed a number of her issues here, but suffice it to say, based on what I saw at the hearings, she has no intention of deciding cases based on the Constitution; it’s all about how she “feels” about the case, and who we should have “empathy” for.

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice.

The committee voted 13-6 Tuesday morning to send Sotomayor’s nomination to the full Senate, where she’s expected to be confirmed easily next week.

Just one Republican, South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, joined Democrats in voting for President Barack Obama’s first high court nominee.

And let me just say, Lindsey Graham, you’re welcome to join Arlen Specter any time you want, cause you certainly have no friends left in my party.

Sotomayor’s danger is extreme; obviously since she’s replacing a liberal (Souter), the pure numbers don’t seem to be affected, but it’s the intangibles. She is an angry, belligerent person when she’s on the bench, and I do NOT want her involved in deliberations. As Lindsey Graham described in his questioning of her (before he turned sissy and voted FOR her), lawyers have called her a “terror” on the bench. Sounds like a prime candidate for SCOTUS, way to go Comrade Obama.

So says a new Quinnipiac Poll.

As Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, continues meeting senators who will be voting on her confirmation, a new Quinnipiac Poll shows a wide majority of Americans dissenting from one of her most talked-about decisions by 3-to-1.

Of more than 3,000 people surveyed, 71% said they disagreed with Sotomayor’s vote in favor of tossing out the results of a New Haven, Conn., firefighter-promotion test because no blacks or Hispanics qualified.

The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where Sotomayor is currently a judge, is now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.

I’m not surprised. The general public is not racist like Sotomayor is. People, in general, do not believe in holding people of different ethnicities to different standards. Denying promotions to white firefighters because black firefighters could not make the cut is ridiculous. I hope the Supreme Court slaps her down; it would be a nasty lump of egg on Obama’s face for the SCOTUS to overturn the decision of a nominee (which I don’t think has ever happened before).